I'm waiting for a reply to my gayotic word...
Favourite Obscure Words
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Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
I am loath to give attention to such immaturity, but will repeat my previous statement. No made up words from various early teenage contributers.
xeven, your word serves no point, and some of the definitions make absoultely no sense. I'm sorry to break this to you, but quite a few of us grew out of finding the word "gay" funny, offensive, or even noteworthy quite a while ago.
So, now and forever, please submit real English words that are obscure and rare, not nonsense words that sound funny to you.
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xeven, your word serves no point, and some of the definitions make absoultely no sense. I'm sorry to break this to you, but quite a few of us grew out of finding the word "gay" funny, offensive, or even noteworthy quite a while ago.
So, now and forever, please submit real English words that are obscure and rare, not nonsense words that sound funny to you.
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- N.S.Khrushchev
Skeezer is my fav word
Cock Smokin Turkey is pretty funny phrase if used at the right time
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Cock Smokin Turkey is pretty funny phrase if used at the right time
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drake
Bring it
Cock Smokin Turkey Sun?
Isn't that what your mom's nickname is?
Hey, you're right, it is funny at appropriate times
I like the word xenophobe, though I dont know how obscure it's considered.
Isn't that what your mom's nickname is?
Hey, you're right, it is funny at appropriate times
I like the word xenophobe, though I dont know how obscure it's considered.
Sorry, Sir Darkshade. I'll try again.
Maxillofacial
Sopwith
And a phrase:
There's no "see" to it, it's all dry land
Maxillofacial
Sopwith
And a phrase:
There's no "see" to it, it's all dry land
Algernon Pondlife
Prince
It may be an obscure word but it is a common complaint. Still, at least it is not gobbledegook.
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true
Ok... here's another sub topic... words that AREN'T swear words, that we weren't allowed to say as a child?
Puke +
Fart to name a couple.
I know we were repressed
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Puke +
Fart to name a couple.
I know we were repressed
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Silence Fills the Nothingness......NERRRR!
Even though stuff happens that we don't plan, be a man... use you hand.
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drake
Bring it
My dad was in the military. I was cussin like a pirate by 10 or 11 or so. Don't ask me Brad 
SlowwHand
King
catty cornered = across street and over
catty whompus= not in working order {is best description).
plumb= very, as in "I'm plumb tired".
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It's In The Way That You Use It
Tuatha De Danann Tribe
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catty whompus= not in working order {is best description).
plumb= very, as in "I'm plumb tired".
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It's In The Way That You Use It
Tuatha De Danann Tribe
ICQ 51553293
ARRRRRG MATIE 
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Silence Fills the Nothingness......NERRRR!
Even though stuff happens that we don't plan, be a man... use you hand.
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[This message has been edited by Brad (edited July 06, 2001).]
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Silence Fills the Nothingness......NERRRR!
Even though stuff happens that we don't plan, be a man... use you hand.
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[This message has been edited by Brad (edited July 06, 2001).]
Kefka
Your local Schizophrenic
Lake Titticacca (or however its spelled)
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"I will Create A monument to nothingness!"
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"I will Create A monument to nothingness!"
dreadhead7
Peacemonger
Ok, here's one I haven't heard in a while--loquacious--an apt description of me, when I really get going.
Oh, and here's another one--obsequious--how you behave towards your boss sometimes, just to keep your job.
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"Shake the world beneath your feet up"
--Johnny Clegg
Oh, and here's another one--obsequious--how you behave towards your boss sometimes, just to keep your job.
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"Shake the world beneath your feet up"
--Johnny Clegg
dreadhead7
Peacemonger
Oops, I noticed that "obsequious" was already taken, so here's another:
Lascivious--the kind of thinking that goes on a lot around here, at times.
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"Shake the world beneath your feet up"
--Johnny Clegg
Lascivious--the kind of thinking that goes on a lot around here, at times.
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"Shake the world beneath your feet up"
--Johnny Clegg
Or how about kitty corner, kitty cornered, or catty corner. They all mean the same thing, but doesn't necessarily mean across the street, but does the second object is a diagonal direction from the first.
oh and pop-up
PS SlowwHand, the spell checker wants to change your name to Cowhand!
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I've always been rather partial to 'deoxyribonucleic acid,' though the usage of the term 'snog' by the British always makes me feel warm and tingly inside.
Mechanical_Animal
Chieftain
Sycophant. The worlds full of them.
Verbose. As in "extreme verbosity".
Smite. What happens to AI controlled civs.
Any chemical description of a substance.
Llama. It starts with two l's so its got to be good.
Verbose. As in "extreme verbosity".
Smite. What happens to AI controlled civs.
Any chemical description of a substance.
Llama. It starts with two l's so its got to be good.
duke o' york
It don't mean a thing....
Bowdlerise.
If anyone can tell me what it means than they shoot into my cool book. Actually I'm not cool enough to have a cool book, but don't let that put off any budding linguists out there. Or those people who can type it into a search engine/online dictionary correctly.
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in vino veritas
If anyone can tell me what it means than they shoot into my cool book. Actually I'm not cool enough to have a cool book, but don't let that put off any budding linguists out there. Or those people who can type it into a search engine/online dictionary correctly.
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in vino veritas
thedirk
Master of Stealth
The term bowdlerize comes from Thomas Bowdler.
He lived in victorian England and decided to publish a "family" version of Shakespeare. So he went through and removed all the stuff that might offend victorian sensibilities, curses, sex, violence, etc. The two pages he had left were then published as a Shakespeare for the whole family reader.
Since then the term bowdlerize has come to be used when a written work is edited for content in order to tame it down or remove content that anyone might find offensive.
And no I didn't look that up on the net, so I may not have every tiny detail right off the top of my head.
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He lived in victorian England and decided to publish a "family" version of Shakespeare. So he went through and removed all the stuff that might offend victorian sensibilities, curses, sex, violence, etc. The two pages he had left were then published as a Shakespeare for the whole family reader.
Since then the term bowdlerize has come to be used when a written work is edited for content in order to tame it down or remove content that anyone might find offensive.
And no I didn't look that up on the net, so I may not have every tiny detail right off the top of my head.
[This message has been edited by thedirk (edited July 25, 2001).]
thedirk
Master of Stealth
Oh yeah and my favorite obscure word
discombobulated - what many of the posts around here tend to be.
discombobulated - what many of the posts around here tend to be.
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